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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37274-37275
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. VOL. I., II. Official correspondence of Lord Mornington, as Governor General of Bengal with Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control, etc., consisting chiefly of original "private" and "secret and confidential" dispatches and letters of Dundas (some few being in cypher), with many lengthy enclosures; 7 Mar. 1797-10 June 1805. Two volumes. Paper; ff. 368, 386. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: General Indian correspondence: 1797-1807. India: Correspondence, etc., of Lord Wellesley, as Governor-General: 1797-1806. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville: Correspondence with Lord Wellesley: 1797-1811.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 7 Mar 1797-10 Jun 1805
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37279-37280
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. VI., VII. Correspondence and papers relating to Madras; 1797-1807. The principal writers are Edward, 2nd Baron Clive, Governor 1797-1803, Josiah Webbe, Government Secretary, Col. William Kirkpatrick and Col. James Achilles Kirkpatrick, Residents at Hyderabad, and William Petrie, Member of Council [Governor 1807]. Two volumes. Paper. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: General Indian correspondence: 1797-1807. India: Correspondence, etc., of Lord Wellesley, as Governor-General: 1797-1806.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1797-1807
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37282-37284
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. IX..-XI. General correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley relating to Indian affairs; 1797-1807. Three volumes. Lord Wellesley returned to England early in 1806, and many of the letters in 37284 concern the attack made on him in Parliament in connection with his policy respecting Oudh. Among the writers (whose names are included in the Index) are the Marquis Cornwallis, whom Wellesley succeeded in India, Henry Addington, First Lord of the Treasury (1801-1803), Viscount...
Scope & Content:: Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: General Indian correspondence: 1797-1807. India: Correspondence, etc., of Lord Wellesley, as Governor-General: 1797-1806.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1797-1807
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37286-37288
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. XIII.-XV. Correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley relating to Spain and Portugal, chiefly as Ambassador Extraordinary in 1809 to the Central Junta at Seville; 1804-1809. Three volumes. Included are letters from George Canning, Foreign Secretary, Sir Arthur Wellesley [Viscount Wellington Sept. 1809], John Hookham Frere, whom Lord Wellesley superseded as Ambassador Extraordinary, John Charles Villiers, Envoy to Portugal, Maj. Colin Campbell, who gives an account of the ...
Scope & Content:: Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: Correspondence when ambassador to Spain: 1804-1809. Richard Wellesley, MP: Correspondence relating to his movements in Spain: 1808, 1809.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1804-1809
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37291-37294
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. XVIII.-XXI. Correspondence and papers relating to foreign affairs, chiefly during the time (Dec. 1809-Feb. 1812) when the Marquis Wellesley was Foreign Secretary; 1793-1840. Four volumes. Among the subjects treated are: (a) the progress of the war in the Peninsula;-(b) the expedition of Capt. George Cockburn to Quiberon Bay in 1810 to attempt the release of Ferdinand IV. of Spain, imprisoned in the castle of Valençay;-(c) the capture from the French of the Île de Fran...
Scope & Content:: Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: General foreign correspondence: 1793-1840.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1793-1840
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37308-37313
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. XXXV.-XL. General correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley; 1773-1842. Many of the letters, though not strictly coming under the head of "official," are from successive Ministers of State and discuss current political questions. Six volumes. Paper. Folio.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 1773-1842
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37318/1-6
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vol. XLV. 1, 2. Appointments by the East India Company of Richard [Wellesley], Earl of Mornington, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fort William in Bengal, etc., and as Governor General of the Presidency of Fort William, with Lieut. Gen. Sir Alured Clarke, Peter Speke and William Cowper as Members of his Council; 6 Oct. 1697. With seals. Paper and vellum;-3, 4. Counterparts of two covenants between the same; 6, 7 Oct. 1797;-5. Will of Lord Mornington; 18 Oct. 1797. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Oct 1697
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38033-38035
Title:: Vols. VI.-VIII. (ff. 522, 541, 563). "Lettres de plusieurs Princes et Princessees et Grands Seigneurs"; 1537- 1658. Many of them are written to the above-named Dues d'Aumale and Duo de Guise, and some to Claude de Lorraine, lst Due de Guise (d. 1550). Included in Vol. VIII. are:-(a) Letters, etc., relating to the affairs of Savoy, 1568-1622. f. 303;-(b) Treatise "touchant l'ordre qui doibt estre tenu pour s'apprester a donner vne Bataille. f. 357;-(c) "Lettre au Roy [Henri IV.] par Monsieur ...
Scope & Content:: Claude de Lorraine, Duc d'Aumale: Correspondence,: 1548-1558.: Copies. Francois de Lorraine, Duc d'Aumale and afterwards 2nd Duc de Guise: Correspondence: 1546-1557.: Copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1537-1658
Extent:: 3 items

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